“Hi Helen, I think you are forging a unique position for yourselves with your style of humorous but dark lyrics fused with sounds that pay homage to the best of the past whilst still maintaining modernity.”

“Seldom does quality humour and breathtaking electronic compositions come together in one unit...its the 1% like this that reminds me that ultimately 99% of new music found on the interweb is truly shite!”

— the saucer people,Ripped In Glasgow comments strand

“A mixture of effects-laden male speech on some tracks, and hilarious female singing on others. It's been a long time since the vocals in an electronic track made me laugh, but a few on here do just that. Magnificent stuff.”

— rippedinglasgow.blogspot.com

“think discarded pet shop boys lyrics found in a dark room produced by anne clark (if she actually had a sense of humour.)”

— stellavista.tumblr.com

“..like a sort of freaky acid trip where a crack addled Sarah Brightman sings in your ear at a party in 1984.”

— Iain P Orridge,man off facebook

“Shagging the milkman is a six o'clock Saturday buzz on a Monday morning ...marvelous.
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“mammals is like Jean Michel Jarre starved of oxygene and gasping for some kink of justified papal exoneration for the forthcoming visit. in his own nazi dustbin of a pontifex mouth with pre come ass wiped on the unwanted children and aids victims which he has fucked over and they have captured this beautifly”

— Quirkout,Superstar top friend and music artiste

“Your lyrics are brilliant - thank you for sharing! My best wishes,Vlad Quigley”

— Vlad Quigley,London Gothic Punk Artist

“Love it! Its like a cross between `Knightrider` and David Attonbrough at 4AM in a really cool house party. You should do a collab with the Girobabies :)”

— Mark McG (talking about the track 'Mammals'),The Girobabies

“'Mammals' is a witty wonderful journey into the point blank accuracy of the absurd.”

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Q: Hi, just discovered your music at the tender age of 42, where have you been! The band name please explain, its genius.

A: Hi David, Here's the answer to your question as it appears on a recent blog interview that we gave.
Owen: Well, ‘The Netherlands’ is slang for the nether regions of the body - having a ‘tingle in the Netherlands’ is a phrase which Helên uses. When we were thinking of a name for the band we were randomly playing with words and phrases and I came out with it, and we both thought it was funny. Given that our original brief for the band was to do ‘stupid stuff’ it fitted well with that, and we liked the sound of it. Plus it’s memorable and great for search engines.
Here's a link to the full interview if you're interested. Thanks for the follow on here an fb too. (HT)
http://anthologymusic.org/2013/03/31/tingle-in-the-netherlands-interview/